The Texas AG has issued a statement to that effect: “Texas will join South Carolina and other states in an effort to thoroughly review the constitutionality and legality of the Nebraska Compromise… this backroom deal goes too far and must be challenged because Texas deserves better.”

Thus we may soon be treated to the spectacle of Republicans bringing a civil rights lawsuit to stop health care reform. We look forward to them staging a sit-in in the Halls of Congress, and singing “We Shall Overcome.”